⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

[mv1986]

Fernandes is a player who loves competition. He's always embraced it during his time with Manchester United. Even during Manchester United's worst seasons, he was their best player. Having made so many sacrifices, I don't think he'll leave the team just for the sake of money to go to Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, the offer Manchester United has made him is enough for anyone to comfortably live on. I don't think he'll switch teams just for the sake of more money. Also, let's remember that Cristiano Ronaldo was striving hard to play in Europe when he went to Saudi Arabia. He went there out of necessity.

That is what I mean, he isn't a guy you would think is looking forward to end his career early and play in Saudi Arabia. Actually, I am sad about every great player who more or less quits early for the sake of making money. On the one hand I can understand it because there is so much money on the line, on the other hand I think there is a responsibility and a certain role that world class players should live up to. Fernandes made enough money already, but Saudi Arabia is bringing these people to new heights.

[KTChampions]

A very high salary offer might change Bruno Fernandes's minds. Manchester United has been in excellent form lately and has started winning matches. Yesterday, they beat Brighton, a key rival. They are now firmly on their way to the Champions League. Therefore, they will naturally not want to sell such a key player. However, we don't know how high the offer will be. Perhaps the Saudi teams will come with an offer high enough to change their minds.

Yes, it also seems to me that money is something that can convince any player who is not at the beginning of his career, but at the end. Simply put, why would Bruno stay in Europe, even if he's enjoying good years, if he can earn as much in a few seasons in Saudi Arabia as he did in his entire previous career? Plus, many Saudi Arabian players continue to play for their national teams, meaning he won't lose the opportunity to play for his country.

[Frankolala]

Yes, it also seems to me that money is something that can convince any player who is not at the beginning of his career, but at the end. Simply put, why would Bruno stay in Europe, even if he's enjoying good years, if he can earn as much in a few seasons in Saudi Arabia as he did in his entire previous career? Plus, many Saudi Arabian players continue to play for their national teams, meaning he won't lose the opportunity to play for his country.

SPL is a league rich league. They can pay any amount of money to bring a player that's after money. Their offer is always tempting but any player that doesn't want to leave the European soil wouldn't go for their offer no matter how tempting it is. I don't know if Fernandez will change his mind later, I think it will be better for him to stay in United because they're looking better than past season.

[SatoPrincess]

Fernandes is a player who loves competition. He's always embraced it during his time with Manchester United. Even during Manchester United's worst seasons, he was their best player. Having made so many sacrifices, I don't think he'll leave the team just for the sake of money to go to Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, the offer Manchester United has made him is enough for anyone to comfortably live on. I don't think he'll switch teams just for the sake of more money. Also, let's remember that Cristiano Ronaldo was striving hard to play in Europe when he went to Saudi Arabia. He went there out of necessity.

300 games played for United and Bruno Fernandes has carried the team from day 1 I don’t think anyone would blame him or make him feel guilty about leaving the club. He has done more than enough, I guess he wants to cement his legacy at the club and retire there. Not a bad plan but I don’t see him lifting a UCL trophy with United.

[xzone]

A very high salary offer might change Bruno Fernandes's minds. Manchester United has been in excellent form lately and has started winning matches. Yesterday, they beat Brighton, a key rival. They are now firmly on their way to the Champions League. Therefore, they will naturally not want to sell such a key player. However, we don't know how high the offer will be. Perhaps the Saudi teams will come with an offer high enough to change their minds.

Yes, it also seems to me that money is something that can convince any player who is not at the beginning of his career, but at the end. Simply put, why would Bruno stay in Europe, even if he's enjoying good years, if he can earn as much in a few seasons in Saudi Arabia as he did in his entire previous career? Plus, many Saudi Arabian players continue to play for their national teams, meaning he won't lose the opportunity to play for his country.

I find it perfectly normal that every footballer over 30 is considering offers from Saudi Arabia. These are the last years they can earn money; in a few years, their value will plummet, and they won't be able to earn that kind of money again. I believe it's important to seize the opportunities now. Considering they'll live for another 50 years, on average, every footballer needs to save as much as possible.
Of course, some players remain in England despite this. I have great respect for them

[hyudien]

I find it perfectly normal that every footballer over 30 is considering offers from Saudi Arabia. These are the last years they can earn money; in a few years, their value will plummet, and they won't be able to earn that kind of money again. I believe it's important to seize the opportunities now. Considering they'll live for another 50 years, on average, every footballer needs to save as much as possible.
Of course, some players remain in England despite this. I have great respect for them

Yes it's very realistic for players approaching retirement or struggling to compete in top leagues to decide to move to the Arab League. Not only can they earn a substantial salary but they can also contribute to the league growing popularity. While I must admit, I still see many criticizing the Arab League actions, the reality is that money is everything.

[GbitG]

I talked about Endrick earlier probably on the La Liga thread about the same thing. I said that he needed a loan in this situation.

Now it seems like this is getting real... But it will be the best for him to make such move. It has been more than a month since he recovered from his injury. But still he can't find minutes which is really difficult already. 

Yeah, obviously he should need to make a move away from Real Madrid because right now I am just observing that Xabi Alonso is not intending to give him little minutes even he didn't even want to give him a substitute chance. Despite Endrick is a wonder kid, he just needs a time to prove himself but unfortunately Xabi Alonso does not like him to be the part of the team.....

I believe that if he move away from Real Madrid, whether it's a loan move or permanent deal then for sure he can improve his ability. Real Madrid's history show us that they have never valued young talent. They have never given them a chance to improve themselves. They have always preferred big names.

[harapan]

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Good to see him finally clicking in a renowned club. There were times when he was not performing well at all. Maybe especially, I can talk about his time in Manchester United. He was just another wonder kid who was unable to perform as he was supposed to. And at this point, a lot of people probably also are convinced that it was a lot his fault. Just like a lot of other players that went to Manchester United. But at the same time I also have to say that it looks like he has done more interviews than scoring goals since he joined Barcelona. And at the end of the day when the coach is going to bench him for another 17 year-old he is again probably going to talk about “new challenges”

Impossible to happen unless Barca will offload some of their players. They still owe more than one hundred of millions from the various clubs. Signing Rashford sounds impossible without them to fix all of their problems first.
I know Rashford's clause is not as big as other world class player, but enough to put more burden on barcelona.

Beside that he must also have to lower his wages. His current wage is so damn big and Barcelona can't afford that.

Has he not agreed to lower his wages to play for Barcelona already, I do not know how this rumours of him lowering his demands and salaries came up again. This is another wrong news. The sporting director former Chelsea and Barcelona player has not closed the doors towards signing him fully. The demands are only for Rashford to give his utmost best to the club. He has shown that with his numbers. His goals and assist already speaks for him during the first few games for Barcelona.

[Unknown01]

I find it perfectly normal that every footballer over 30 is considering offers from Saudi Arabia. These are the last years they can earn money; in a few years, their value will plummet, and they won't be able to earn that kind of money again. I believe it's important to seize the opportunities now. Considering they'll live for another 50 years, on average, every footballer needs to save as much as possible.
Of course, some players remain in England despite this. I have great respect for them

Yes it's very realistic for players approaching retirement or struggling to compete in top leagues to decide to move to the Arab League. Not only can they earn a substantial salary but they can also contribute to the league growing popularity. While I must admit, I still see many criticizing the Arab League actions, the reality is that money is everything.

I believe that very few players who transfer are concerned about contributing to the league's popularity. 99.9% go for the money, and there's nothing wrong with that. Who wouldn't do it? I believe that everyone here in the forum or world would move there for a few years if they had the chance. With as much money as they offer you there, you can provide for your whole family for the rest of your life.

[Btcdeybodi]

I talked about Endrick earlier probably on the La Liga thread about the same thing. I said that he needed a loan in this situation.

Now it seems like this is getting real... But it will be the best for him to make such move. It has been more than a month since he recovered from his injury. But still he can't find minutes which is really difficult already. 

I don't know if any club has shown interest in the striker but i think he has a poor performance for Real Madrid despite that he was not featured in matches after he recovered from injury. Anyways, for the sake of his country Brazil, he really needs enough playing time so that he can be productive to his national team at the FIFA world cup in 2026 so a loan deal will have him achieve good fitness against the bigger task coming forth. He is still young and has a promising career so it will be better to feature in matches often than to be benched in the Madrid team all in the name that he is playing at a big team.

[GiftedMAN]

300 games played for United and Bruno Fernandes has carried the team from day 1 I don’t think anyone would blame him or make him feel guilty about leaving the club. He has done more than enough, I guess he wants to cement his legacy at the club and retire there. Not a bad plan but I don’t see him lifting a UCL trophy with United.

What Bruno Fernandes is doing in the Manchester United team is the reason why the team can not let him leave at the moment because he is one of the most important players in the team leaving the team is going to affect the performance of the team because he is not a player that gets injured always and his motivation in the team is second to none United still need him. Bruno is already a living legend in the team he may not have won the champions League with the team but the level of improvement in the team will take them to the champions League next season and if they get lucky who knows if they will lift it before he retires.

[SatoPrincess]

Messi is at Inter Miami for 3 more years which means his new contract ends when he is 41...

What do you think will happen after? Will he continue to play for a couple of more years or not? Ronaldo will be 42 when his current contract ends for example. I don't know whether he will continue playing after.

It would be nice to see Messi having his jubilee match at Barcelona honestly. 

I think Messi will be first of the two to retire. Ronaldo’s competitive nature and ego won’t let him retire before his greatest rival does. That being said, I don’t know how I’m going to feel when these two finally hang their boots. Anyway I’m just happy I got to see Ronaldo and Messi in their prime. 

[EL MOHA]

What Bruno Fernandes is doing in the Manchester United team is the reason why the team can not let him leave at the moment because he is one of the most important players in the team leaving the team is going to affect the performance of the team because he is not a player that gets injured always and his motivation in the team is second to none United still need him. Bruno is already a living legend in the team he may not have won the champions League with the team but the level of improvement in the team will take them to the champions League next season and if they get lucky who knows if they will lift it before he retires.

This is a very bold statement about Manchester United winning the champions league, In as much as they have improved in almost all aspects I will narrow down my expectations to be winning some domestic trophies first because this champions league needs a team that has to be consistent and even to qualify Manchester United are struggling to get consistent promotion there and think this has to be achieved before they can think of   Winning it.

Bruno Fernandez is 31 years old, how many years left do we even think he will be with Manchester United I think a least if we add like four more years I think he would be looking for an exit if he wouldn’t have actually done that before then. I will say on current form and the crisis faced by other clubs I think it is realistic timing say they will win the premier league within this period but this doesn’t translate to them winning the champions league

[Africolo]

I think Messi will be first of the two to retire. Ronaldo’s competitive nature and ego won’t let him retire before his greatest rival does. That being said, I don’t know how I’m going to feel when these two finally hang their boots. Anyway I’m just happy I got to see Ronaldo and Messi in their prime. 

Ronaldo already had goals set for himself to achieve before retiring like scoring more 50 goals to achieve the all time 1000 goals and also to participate in the next World cup and try to win it. Messi on the other hand had achieved everything he needed and just playing football for fun.

He's just going to see off his 3 years contract at Inter Miami and retire thereafter.

[Obari]

Ronaldo already had goals set for himself to achieve before retiring like scoring more 50 goals to achieve the all time 1000 goals and also to participate in the next World cup and try to win it. Messi on the other hand had achieved everything he needed and just playing football for fun.

He's just going to see off his 3 years contract at Inter Miami and retire thereafter.

Ronaldo still vigorous and ready to accept challenge, he's one of the complete player I know in European football history. The Portuguese step up in crucial moment and claim gigantic winnings with his speeding stunning performance. I called him the GOAT in football because he's very close to 1000 goals tally and he's the best player in the world.

Despite their age, these legends are not retiring anytime soon and they're headed to still entertain us with good style. Leo Messi playing for Inter Miami in MLS and coming out stronger is definitely something we should talk about, a very talented player with ease efforts towards greatness. Whereas none of these players will retire now, giving us more time to hope and enjoy their game.

[Donneski]

Caicedo is absolutely having his best season so far. At least the best start to a season I can say. It is no surprise that he has attracted attention after that.

Chelsea is already in new contract talks with him. He actually has contract running until 2031. But I assume they want to make sure he doesn't leave soon.

Any big club even Real Madrid should leave Caicedo alone. He's pretty similar to the Kante, but younger verision. However, he has a contract until 2031. It's impossible for Madrid to get him even if they offer like 150m or even more to the Chelsea.

He has his loyalty for blues. Madrid will never able to attract Caicedo unless Chelsea wants him to leave, which too good to be true.

No one can take Kante's place, he was a player like no other before him. His character alone was unique.

I firmly believe that Chelsea would sell Caicedo if the price was right, and Caicedo would also move to another club if the club was big enough.

Ngolo Kante was a class of his own and was one of the major reasons Chelsea won the trophies they did win when he was at the club while Moise Caicedo on the other hand still have a lot to do before we can consider him as the perfect replacement for the outgone French midfielder so I'll not be a party to the people comparing the two at least for now.
That said, I don't also think that Chelsea will want to let their Ecuadorian midfielder leave the club now regardless of how tempting the offer turns to be. Caicedo have been the one carrying the club on his shoulders this season and I think he's the one the team is built around. I strongly believe that Caicedo will stay at Chelsea for a very long period, win trophies and join the list of the club's legends

[logfiles]

Has he not agreed to lower his wages to play for Barcelona already, I do not know how this rumours of him lowering his demands and salaries came up again. This is another wrong news. The sporting director former Chelsea and Barcelona player has not closed the doors towards signing him fully. The demands are only for Rashford to give his utmost best to the club. He has shown that with his numbers. His goals and assist already speaks for him during the first few games for Barcelona.

This always happens now and then. Some media outlets create false rumours so they can get more clicks and website traffic for the sake of revenue. After what he went through in Manchester United, I believe Marcus Rashford will be open or flexible for most of the deals that come through. I am not a Barcelona fan, but I am really happy that he is finally getting back on his feet once again.

[kawetsriyanto]

Barcelona still needs several additional players to face the season well. It would be very problematic if several key players were injured, which could impact their performance in La Liga and the Champions League. However, the only problem Barcelona currently faces is their unstable finances, and buying players with high salaries could cause financial instability for the club, as they now have players who must be paid high salaries every season.

Due to injury problem, maybe Barcelona plans to have more players. If the key players like Raphinha and Lewandowski get injured for a long time, they may get difficulty to rotate the players. Unfortunately, I doubt Barcelona can easily sign new players because they still have a financial problem. It is not only unstable financial, but they really have lack of money to buy more players and pay the salaries. You must know that we heard issues of players' salary cuts to help maintain their financial stability. If they sign more players, this problem will be more complicated. I assume not all players are ready to get the salary cuts.

If we look at the urgent aspect, it may be true because so far Barcelona has succeeded in maximizing their strengths with the quality of the players they have from the academy. However, if they are serious about competing in the Champions League, perhaps several additional players are needed to make Barcelona much stronger than they are now.

Dude, we don't only view it from the ideal condition but we must also consider their current real situation. They absolutely want to buy more players to be stronger and can face other big teams in UCL. With their current squad, they may be still not quite strong to be the candidate of the champion. Sadly, they have no choice, they are unable to buy more players. I guess Barcelona won't choose the options to sell their current top players to buy some new players.

[armanda90]

I don't know if any club has shown interest in the striker but i think he has a poor performance for Real Madrid despite that he was not featured in matches after he recovered from injury. Anyways, for the sake of his country Brazil, he really needs enough playing time so that he can be productive to his national team at the FIFA world cup in 2026 so a loan deal will have him achieve good fitness against the bigger task coming forth. He is still young and has a promising career so it will be better to feature in matches often than to be benched in the Madrid team all in the name that he is playing at a big team.

Currently still not any team interested to sign Endrick as loan option maybe high salary payment receiving with Madrid and left two months later before January window transfer opening. Actually Endrick loss totally minutes playing with Real Madrid this season under era Xabi Alonso and if want get national team calling for playing at World Cup 2026 he must get more minutes playing by moving to other club can guarantee regular position for him.
Difficult replacing Kylian Mbappe position in Real Madrid have quite well performance recently, I think join the other club will guarantee more minutes playing is better way for Endrick, he still young and has promising player so leave Madrid for awhile get challenge with other team how to get back opportunity for playing with Brazil national team.

[X-ray]

Any big club even Real Madrid should leave Caicedo alone. He's pretty similar to the Kante, but younger verision. However, he has a contract until 2031. It's impossible for Madrid to get him even if they offer like 150m or even more to the Chelsea.

He has his loyalty for blues. Madrid will never able to attract Caicedo unless Chelsea wants him to leave, which too good to be true.

No one can take Kante's place, he was a player like no other before him. His character alone was unique.

I firmly believe that Chelsea would sell Caicedo if the price was right, and Caicedo would also move to another club if the club was big enough.

How much? £150 million? I don't think there is club willing to pay that big amounts of money for him even Madrid. I don't also think Chelsea is willing to sell him at a loss too. 

However, he can leave to the bigger club after the end of his contract, which is still longggg way to go.